Episode 397: Mark as Unread - a podcast by Software Defined Talk LLC

This week we discuss DHH’s quest to cut HEY’s cloud costs, Chick-fil-A’s use of Kubernetes and some hot takes on Unlimited PTO. Plus, thoughts on champagne….
Watch the YouTube Live Recording of Episode 397 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLEanhxRwIM)Runner-up Titles
I want to vestCall the middle
I just didn’t have moneyXLT, that’s not a thing
Yeah, I’m down for whateverCoté’s Culture Corner.
Brandon’s Halo Hatrack.Unlimited unpaid time off - let’s just call it “untracked PTO.”
If you have unlimited PTO, you can’t have quiet quitting.YOLO workers’ rights
RundownDHH from 37signals shows the numbers
Our cloud spend in 2022 (https://dev.37signals.com/our-cloud-spend-in-2022/) - highlighted from Coté’s newsletter (https://newsletter.cote.io/p/bottleneck-of-worry)They're rebuilding the Death Star of complexity (https://world.hey.com/dhh/they-re-rebuilding-the-death-star-of-complexity-4fb5d08d)
Work LifeMicrosoft employees are getting unlimited time off (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/11/23550470/microsoft-employees-unlimited-time-off-2023) (those that are left (https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/18/23560315/microsoft-job-cuts-layoffs-2023-tech))
Corey’s Take (https://twitter.com/quinnypig/status/1613258939621335040?s=12&t=jzcCYzgaielci5jNtA9nJA)
Relevant to your InterestsCNCF Accepts Kubescape as Inaugural Open Source Security Scanner (https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/interview/cncf-accepts-kubescape-as-inaugural-open-source-security-scanner/2023/01/)
SailPoint acquires identity solutions startup SecZetta (https://siliconangle.com/2023/01/12/sailpoint-acquires-identity-solutions-startup-seczetta/)Apple Is Working on Adding Touch Screens to Macs in Major Turnabout (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-11/apple-working-on-adding-touch-screens-to-macs-in-major-turnabout)
Google Cloud’s Top U.S. Sales Execs Depart in Shakeup as Profits Remain Elusive (https://www.theinformation.com/articles/google-clouds-top-u-s-sales-execs-depart-in-shakeup-as-profits-remain-elusive?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=newsletter_axioslogin&stream=top)
Twitter rival 'T2' raises its first outside funding, $1.1M from a group of high-profile angels (https://techcrunch.com/2023/01/12/twitter-rival-t2-raises-its-first-outside-funding-1-1m-from-a-group-of-high-profile-angels/)Microsoft Bets Big on the Creator of ChatGPT in Race to Dominate A.I. (https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/12/technology/microsoft-openai-chatgpt.html)
State of the Twitterverse • The Breakroom (https://blog.iconfactory.com/2023/01/state-of-the-twitterverse/)The Great Podcasting Market Correction (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-04/the-great-podcasting-market-correction)
Stripe clawed back pension contributions after staff cuts (https://www.businesspost.ie/news/stripe-clawed-back-pension-contributions-after-staff-cuts/)Every Chick-fil-A restaurant is running Kubernetes (https://twitter.com/cra/status/1614683724146266114?s=46&t=GIFUEgf6YFIomCbFD0FuQA)
National Instruments Rises as Much as 19% on Plan to Explore Sale (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-13/national-instruments-rises-up-to-19-on-plan-to-explore-sale?srnd=deals#xj4y7vzkg)FAA says computer failure that grounded thousands of flights was caused by 2 contractors who introduced data errors into NOTAM system (https://fortune.com/2023/01/13/faa-computer-failure-grounded-thousands-flights-caused-2-contractors-introduced-data-errors-notam-system/)
The Airline Industry Meltdown Proves The Business Case For Digital Employee Experience (https://www.forrester.com/blogs/the-airline-industry-meltdown-proves-the-business-case-for-digital-employee-experience/)Forrester study finds 228 percent ROI when modernizing applications on Azure PaaS (https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/forrester-study-finds-228-percent-roi-when-modernizing-applications-on-azure-paas/)
Chuck E. Cheese still uses floppy disks in 2023, but not for long (https://arstechnica.com/?p=1909163)U.S. embraces Ukraine's e-governance app (https://www.axios.com/newsletters/axios-login-c232a791-0715-4475-9240-551d79417fd9.html?chunk=2&utm_term=emshare#story2) with Ukraine.ua (https://ukraine.u)
Twitter Intentionally Ends Third-Party App Developer Access to Its APIs (https://www.macstories.net/stories/twitter-intentionally-ends-third-party-app-developer-access-to-its-apis/)The Shit Show • furbo.org (https://furbo.org/2023/01/15/the-shit-show/)
Extremely Hardcore (https://www.theverge.com/23551060/elon-musk-twitter-takeover-layoffs-workplace-salute-emoji)Nonsense
Ring is releasing a new flying home cam to patrol your house (https://twitter.com/BoredElonMusk/status/1613393977134436354)Every Cloud Architecture (https://www.goodtechthings.com/every-cloud-architecture/)
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SpringOne (https://springone.io/), Jan 24–26. Watch party in Amsterdam (https://www.meetup.com/dutch-spring-meetup/events/290846449/) (Jan 25th, 4:30pm), elsewhere.CloudNativeSecurityCon North America (https://events.linuxfoundation.org/cloudnativesecuritycon-north-america/), Seattle, Feb 1 – 2, 2023
Coté speaking at cfgmgmtcamp (https://cfgmgmtcamp.eu/ghent2023/), Feb 6th to 8th, GhentState of Open Con 2023, (https://stateofopencon.com/sponsors/) London, UK, February 7th-8th 2023
Southern California Linux Expo, (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x) Los Angeles, March 9-12, 2023 Matt (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/kubernetes-cloud-cost-monitoring-opencost-optimization-strategies)&Cote (https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/20x/presentations/lessons-learned-7-years-running-developer-platforms)!
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